Astoria

My recent work shoot brought me to Astoria, OR. For those that don't know, this is where they filmed the movie The Goonies. My hotel was right on the Columbia River, so I was able to spend some time walking up and down the bank looking for birds and such. My main goal was to photograph the Peter Iredale wreckage, and I was ecstatic with the results! My bonus find was the group of sea lions hanging out with the fishing boats. For the most part they were lazing around sleeping, but then some guy went down on the docks and was checking them out with binoculars. I'm assuming he was a researcher and was doing a count, but the sea lions went into an uproar, I think they thought he was going to shoot at them. Unfortunately I found out that a lot of fisherman do so. It was still a great day sitting in the sun and listening to them yell at one another!